View SlideshowRequest to buy this photoJULIAN H. GONZALEZ | DETROIT FREE PRESSNorthland graduate Trey Burke strips the ball from Michigan State’s Keith Appling. Burke then made a breakaway dunk to give Michigan a 58-56 lead, and the Wolverines held on to win 58-57.

Monday March 4, 2013 5:16 AM

No. 4 Michigan 58, No. 9 Michigan State 57: A 10-point lead had slipped away in the final minutes, and it looked like the best Trey Burke and Michigan could hope for was another chance in overtime.

Then Burke, a Northland graduate, decided to gamble, reaching in and knocking the ball away from Michigan State’s Keith Appling with the game on the line.

“I take my eyes off it for a second to see their formation, and there’s Trey going down the other end,” Wolverines coach John Beilein said.

Burke’s steal and dunk put Michigan ahead by two with 22 seconds remaining, and the host Wolverines held on for a pulsating 58-57 victory yesterday. Burke had 21 points and eight assists, and he had enough energy left in the stretch drive to help Michigan to a much-needed victory.

The Spartans (22-7, 11-5 Big Ten) had the ball with the shot clock off and the score tied at 56, but Burke stole the ball from Appling near midcourt and went in alone for the game’s last field goal.

“I really wasn’t pressuring him as hard as I felt like I could, the whole game,” Burke said. “I tried to turn him as many times as possible. The one time I did turn him, he kept the ball out, so I just went after it.”

He ended up with a dunk, giving Michigan (24-5, 11-5) the lead. Michigan State’s Derrick Nix was fouled with 8.8 seconds left, but he missed the first free throw. After he made the second, the Spartans fouled Michigan freshman Mitch McGary, who missed the front end of a 1-and-1.

Michigan State called a timeout with 4.9 seconds left but never got a shot off. Burke stole a pass by Gary Harris to end the game. Michigan State’s loss clinched at least a share of the Big Ten title for Indiana.

“They’ve got a good team,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said of Michigan. “We did some real good things, but unfortunately, ‘good’ isn’t good enough in this league.”

BIG TEN HIGHLIGHT

Purdue 69, No. 17 Wisconsin 56: D.J. Byrd got 16 of his 22 points in the second half for visiting Purdue (14-15, 7-9). Purdue took control with a 21-3 run in the second half.

Jared Berggren had 13 points and Ryan Evans and Sam Dekker 10 each for Wisconsin (20-9, 11-5), which had won six of its past seven games. It was the first time in Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan’s 12-year tenure that the Badgers lost on their senior day.